Navel

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nā´v'l (שׁר, shōr. The Septuagint in Proverbs 3:8 suggests a different reading, namely, instead of שׁרּך, shorrekhā, שׁרך, shērekhā = שׁארך, she'ērkhā, “thy flesh”)):

The King James Version translates the Hebrew shārīr in the description of Behemoth (Job 40:16) by “navel,” where modern translators have substituted “muscles”; similarly in the translation of shōrer (Song Of Songs 7:2) it has been replaced by “body.”, There remain two passages of the Revised Version (British and American) where “navel” is retained as the translation of shōr. Thus we find the word used, pars pro toto, for the whole being: “It (the fear of YHWH) will be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones” (Proverbs 3:8). The uttermost neglect which a new-born babe can experience is expressed by Ezekiel: “In the day thou wast born thy navel (i.e. umbilical cord) was not cut neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all” (Ezekiel 16:4).